Quotes About Vigilance

I watched him long, and he seemed to be following you as if to guard and yet not be seen himself...

To watch the progress of such endeavours is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Entre os pensamentos, as suspeitas são como morcegos, sempre voam no crepúsculo e certamente devem ser reprimidas, ou pelo menos bem vigiadas; elas levam reis à tirania, maridos ao ciúme e os homens sábios à indecisão e à melancolia, como disse o filósofo Francis Bacon.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with

Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

No habría sido mejor intentar mantenerse en la fe, y, una vez instalados en ella, estar alerta para no caer? Pues el movimiento de la fe se debe hacer constantemente en virtud del absurdo, aunque poniendo un cuidado extremo en no perder la finitud, sino, al contrario, recuperarla íntegramente.

nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can't falter. You can't slip. You can't sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

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